Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
Sea QuatrainsGrant H. Code
Their helter-skelter races;
They stumble when the goal is won
And fall upon their faces.
A purple light is shaken over
The greener ocean shadows,
Like clover on the cooler depths
Of grass in upland meadows,
The sea hangs kelp upon the sand
Like garlands on a grave,
Mourning the dead and silent land
With every living wave.
The breakers thunder in the night
With which the sea is drenched.
Only one plunging line is white;
Even the stars are quenched.
The fairest ship ever a wreck
Had not so white a sail
As this fair wave cast up to break,
Driven before the gale.